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Grey River Argus, 23 October 1930, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr ('• Calvert, of Christchurch, is on i a visit to Hokitika. Constable A. Huston of Stratford, is on a visit to see his father, who is seriously ill. ' Miss Frances Broad, of New Ply- ' mouth, arrives to-day on a visit to h r | mother, Mrs A. Broad, Shakespeare utieet. ( Miss S. Roberts, who on Wednesday,! underwent an operation at the Grey i Hospital, is reported to be progressing! favourably. The marriage will take place early ' next month, of Marjorie, daughter of' Mr and Mrs (). M. McCormack, of Detroit, U.S.A.. to Awarua Patrick j George, youngest son of the late Sir , Joseph Ward. A wireb ss message from Rugby states that Sir Guy Stevenson, for 32 slant Director of Public ProsecHi;-ns, died at London, aged 65. He was an able criminal lawyer, and although little known to the public, had dealt with the details of nearly j (>very big criminal ease. Professor Einstein author of the theory of relativitv, is to be entertained in London next Tuesday at din- 1 ner (says a Rugby wireless message). Lord Rothschild will preside. Many distinguished men will be present, and Mr. Bernard Shaw’s speech proposing Professor Elinstein’s health, and the latter’s reply, will be broadcast. i Flight-Lieutenant O. E. Worsley, who was a member of the Victorious British Schuieder trophy team in 1927, died after a motoring accident on Bath road, (says a Rugby wireless message.) He was born in 1898, was placed second to Flight-Lieutenant S. 11. Webster, who won the Schuieder 1 Cup contest at Lido in 1927. lie joined the Royal Naval Air Service 'as a j mechanic in 1917. The death occurred last night, at • her residence, Beach Road, of an old ! and esteemed resident of Kumara, 1 Mns Catherine Whelan. A native of j Dunstan, Otago, where she was born over sixty-six years ago, the late Mrs ; Whelar had come to the West Coast in "Uth, and was for some years a res ill nt of Hokitika, coming later to Kumara, where she had lived ever since. She leaver- a husband. Mr. Michael Whelan. formerly of the Borough Council staff. and two daughters, Mrs J. Atkinson, of South Beach; and Mris P. McCarthy, of Ka- t whaka, in the Auckland district. There are fifteen grandchildren. The sympathy of a wide circle of friends will l>e extended to the relatives in their bereavement.